fujara

See also: fujarą

English

Noun

fujara (plural fujaras)

  1. a flute-like woodwind musical instrument from Slovakia.

Czech
A fujara from Slovakia

Etymology

Derived from Romanian,[1] further traceable to Latin.[2] Cognates can be found in Greek, Albanian, Aromanian and Dacian.[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈfujara]

Noun

fujara f

  1. (music) a flute-like woodwind musical instrument

Declension
Declension of fujara (hard feminine)
singular plural
nominative fujara fujary
genitive fujary fujar
dative fujaře fujarám
accusative fujaru fujary
vocative fujaro fujary
locative fujaře fujarách
instrumental fujarou fujarami

See also

References
  1. Josef Kolařík: O mluvě obyvatel v Napajedlích
  2. Vechimea si originea fluierului romanesc

Polish
fujary

Etymology

Borrowed from Czech fujara, from Romanian fluier.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fuˈja.ra/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ara
  • Syllabification: fu‧ja‧ra

Noun

fujara m animal or f

  1. (colloquial, derogatory) butterfingers (person who is ungraceful or sluggish)[1]
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:niezdara
    • 2007 February 10, Arkadiusz Adamkowski, “Kampania wyborcza. Zawodowcy i amatorzy”, in gazeta.pl‎, Agora SA:
      Fujara, kto nie potrafi wykorzystać samobója, jakiego swojej płockiej PiS-owskiej drużynie strzelił premier Kaczyński [...]
      A butterfingers who can't take advantage of the suicide goal that the prime minister Kaczyński shot for the Płock PiS team [...]

Declension

Masculine declension:

Declension of fujara
singular plural
nominative fujara fujary
genitive fujary fujarów
dative fujarze fujarom
accusative fujarę fujary
instrumental fujarą fujarami
locative fujarze fujarach
vocative fujaro fujary

Feminine declension:

Declension of fujara
singular plural
nominative fujara fujary
genitive fujary fujar
dative fujarze fujarom
accusative fujarę fujary
instrumental fujarą fujarami
locative fujarze fujarach
vocative fujaro fujary

Noun

fujara f (diminutive fujarka)

  1. small, simple folk instrument, usually made of fresh willow bark, typically a kind of short folk pipe[2][3][4]
    Synonyms: fletnia, fujarka, piszczałka
    • 1888, Julian Kołaczkowski, Wiadomości tyczące się przemysłu i sztuki w dawnej Polsce, page 218:
      [...] różniącym się od dzisiejszej fujarki, zatem może najdawniejszym instrumentem na świecie... Fujara, rodzaj piszczałki pasterskiej, gąśle, gędźba, gęśle podgórskie, jedno z najdawniejszych słowiańskich instrumentów [...]
      [...] different from the modern fujarka, might be the oldest instrument in the world... The fujara, a type of pastoral pipe, or gusles, one of the strangest Slavic instruments [...]
  2. (slang, vulgar) penis[4][1]
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prącie
    • 1901, Jan Karłowic, Słownik gwar polskich‎, volume 2:
      Pochować go [...] trzeba Plecami do ziemi, fujarą do nieba.
      We've got to bury him [...], back to the ground, penis to the sky.

Declension
Declension of fujara
singular plural
nominative fujara fujary
genitive fujary fujar
dative fujarze fujarom
accusative fujarę fujary
instrumental fujarą fujarami
locative fujarze fujarach
vocative fujaro fujary

References
  1. Online Polish Slang Dictionary (in English and Polish) by scientists of University of Gdańsk, 1998.
  2. A Concise English-Polish and Polish-English Dictionary, wikipedia:pl:Tadeusz Grzebieniowski, wikipedia:pl:Wiedza Powszechna, Warszawa, 1958–1975.
  3. Online Polish-English Dictionary by the largest Polish portal Onet.pl (Kraków).
  4. Dictionary of Polish dialects (Polish: Słownik gwar polskich), vol. 2, p. 33, wikipedia:pl:Jan Karłowicz, Kraków, 1901.

Further reading
  • fujara in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • fujara in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Slovak
Fujara

Etymology

Derived from Romanian fluier.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfujara/

Noun

fujara f (genitive singular fujary, nominative plural fujary, genitive plural fujár, declension pattern of žena)

  1. (music) a flute-like woodwind musical instrument

Declension
Declension of fujara
singular plural
nominative fujara fujary
genitive fujary fujár
dative fujare fujarám
accusative fujaru fujary
locative fujare fujarách
instrumental fujarou fujarami

Derived terms

See also

Further reading
  • “fujara”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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